Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS
May 31, 2013I’ve been following the ScriptCS project with great interest over the last couple of months. As you may know by now, I’ve been searching for a more lightweight .NET development ...
Read more ...Visual Studio Light Edition
November 30, 2012I noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. ...
Read more ...Dynamic in C# is Broken
August 11, 2011Earlier this week, I ran into an issue while using the dynamic keyword in C#. I learned from C# in Depth that there are a couple of restrictions with dynamic, most notably when ...
Read more ...The Black Art of P/Invoke and Marshaling in .NET
November 17, 2010Last week I finally managed to hunt down and resolve a bug that I had been chasing for quite some time. A couple of years ago I built an ASP.NET web service that makes use of a ...
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CreateDelegate – An Exercise in Using Expressions
July 30, 2010
In a previous blog post I showed a basic example of how to use the Delegate.CreateDelegate() method as an alternative to the slow MethodInfo.Invoke() for dynamically invoking a ...
Read more ...Enter a Parallel Universe Using IKVM.NET
June 25, 2010IKVM.NET is something I’ve been playing with for a while now, but seeing this awesome trailer today reminded me that I should write a post about it. I always considered Java t...
Read more ...Linfu Duck Typing Part 1 – Revealing Secrets
April 16, 2010Don’t you just hate it when a class in the .NET Framework or another third-party library or framework provides that particular feature you’re looking for only to realize that th...
Read more ...Integrating ELMAH for a WCF Service
February 5, 2010Peter Cosemans, who is one of my colleagues, found a nice way to integrate ELMAH for a WCF service. ELMAH is an error logging facility for logging unhandled exceptions particula...
Read more ...Calling Non-Public Methods
January 28, 2010A typical way for invoking a non-public method of a class is by using reflection. This can come in handy in a number of cases. One typical scenario that comes to mind is when th...
Read more ...Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper
October 16, 2009A while ago, I submitted a patch to AutoMapper that added basic support for mapping data from an IDataReader/IDataRecord to an object. For those of us who don't have the luxury ...
Read more ...Exploring NServiceBus
October 9, 2009I've been learning a bit more about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Drive Architecture (EDA) over the last couple of months. Something that kept coming back in the...
Read more ...Generic Value Object
June 7, 2009I just wanted to share my attempt for implementing a generic base class for Value Objects, popularized by Eric Evans and the Domain-Driven Design community. I must say that I go...
Read more ...Conditional Using
April 9, 2009Today I found myself writing the following code: private void DoSomething(String userName) { using(var userEntry = GetUserEntryFor(userName)) if(CouldBeFound(userEn...
Read more ...One Scenario Where the System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement API Falls Down
March 22, 2009About a year ago, I wrote a post about Directory Programming with System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement. I've been using the AccountManagement API of the .NET 3.5 framewor...
Read more ...Hello LINQ in .NET 2.0
December 31, 2008When using Visual Studio 2008, it is possible to use most of the new language additions of C# 3.0 in a .NET 2.0 project. This because the C# 3.0 compiler is used for both .NET 2...
Read more ...Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Service to WCF
December 21, 2008Creating a versionable ASMX Web Service is something that was really hard to do in .NET 1.1, mostly because it involved a lot of work and discipline. Creating versionable servic...
Read more ...Learning about StructureMap
December 12, 2008I’ve been playing around with StructureMap for the last couple of days and I must say that I’m really impressed. I had no troubles in quickly getting up to speed with this amazi...
Read more ...WCF and Multiple IIS Site Bindings
December 1, 2008We ran into an issue last week when we were deploying a WCF service on an IIS web site which had multiple IIS bindings. It manifested itself by throwing the following exception:...
Read more ...Chain of Responsibility Using Castle Windsor and a First Experience With StructureMap - Part 2
November 16, 2008In my previous post, I outlined an issue that I had with Castle Windsor for configuring multiple chains of responsibility. I want to have different ProcessConsumer classes that ...
Read more ...Chain of Responsibility Using Castle Windsor and a First Experience With StructureMap - Part 1
November 16, 2008A couple of months ago, I applied the Chain of Responsibility pattern for the very first time. I've never encountered a scenario before where applying this pattern would be a va...
Read more ...Be careful with optional parameters in C# 4.0
November 9, 2008I've been playing with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP bits, and I tried to see what named and optional parameters in C# 4.0 can bring to the table. Although they are minor language ...
Read more ...Binsor : The Castle Windsor XML Configuration Killer
July 18, 2008As you might have noticed from my previous post, I'm having a look at some of the stuff on my ever growing cool-tools-and-technologies-I-have-to-grock list. The next one that wa...
Read more ...Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF - Throwing the WCF facility and some Rhino Tools in the mix
July 14, 2008A while ago, I wrote this post about how to integrate Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF. Last weekend, I used the WCF integration facility of Castle Windsor to accomplish p...
Read more ...Integrating Castle Windsor and NHibernate with WCF
May 18, 2008Up until now, we were using the NHibernate facility of Castle Windsor for managing our NHibernate sessions in WCF. But, we want to have a session-per-request approach as one wou...
Read more ...WCF friction
May 13, 2008Today I spent some time (thank God no more than 15 minutes) tracking down a WCF issue from hell. Every time I made a call to the service I got the following exception: System.Se...
Read more ...DirectoryEntry Close vs Dispose
February 19, 2008While I was reading The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming yesterday, I came across this passage called Close or Dispose? There's a class called DirectoryE...
Read more ...Directory Programming with System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement
February 10, 2008Last months MSDN Magazine contains a very interesting article that titles Managing Directory Security Principals in the .NET Framework 3.5. Its a nice introduction to the classe...
Read more ...Treat Warnings as Errors
February 7, 2008This in one of my pet peeves. Its simply none negotiable! I still don't understand why it can be turned off. Heck, I don't understand why its not turned on by default. I ...
Read more ...Why O Why - The Day after
December 2, 2007Alex Henderson picked up on my "Why O Why" post in his take on the Pluggable IoC in WPF Composite & Enterprise Library v.Next. I still believe that an IoC Application Block...
Read more ...Why O Why
December 1, 2007Glenn Block announced on the ALT.NET Yahoo Group that the P&P team is developing a new dependency injection framework. To say it with the words of Captain Alberto Bertorelli...
Read more ...Design by Contract - The Sequel
November 20, 2007In this post I put out some code for checking method arguments. I changed it somewhat regarding value types:public void DoSomethingMeaningfull(Int32 someNumber) { // Throws Ar...
Read more ...Design by contract
October 24, 2007Something that was bothering me for a while now was writing the following piece of code over and over again: public void DoSomething(Request request) { if(null == request) ...
Read more ...Dynamic Language Runtime
July 22, 2007Earlier this week, I've been listening to the .NET Rocks podcast, John Lam on the DLR. I must admit, I'm looking forward to IronRuby. Now, somewhere half way the show, Carl Fra...
Read more ...FCL Type Names
July 8, 2007After a code review session earlier this week, I was wondering if I am the only one who uses the FCL type names (e.g. Int32) instead of their language-agnostic counterparts (e.g...
Read more ...Exploring WCF - The Close vs Abort confusion
May 9, 2007In my journey to explore the Windows Communication Foundation, I came across an issue that confused me at first but actually made some sense after spending half a day figuring t...
Read more ...Which .NET Framework exceptions to throw?
January 22, 2007A very useful subject today on the Visual Studio Code Analysis Team Blog called: What exception should I throw instead of the reserved exceptions that DoNotRaiseReservedExceptio...
Read more ...System.Configuration 2.0
December 15, 2006Today I was working my way through migrating a web service application from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0. One of the things that I came across was the new architecture of the System.Con...
Read more ...WCF Coding Standard
December 5, 2006While the blogosphere is full of the first CTP of WPF/E, I'm want to mention something about an old technology, namely WCF. The nice people of IDesign already published their C#...
Read more ...What's new in System.Xml 2.0?
August 6, 2006The September 2006 issue of MSDN magazine has a great article about the new features in System.Xml 2.0. I used (and I am still using) this part of the .NET Framework a lot and h...
Read more ...The case against catch(Exception ex)
June 15, 2006You should definitely read this fine article about exception handling. When it comes to exception handling, there is still a lot of confusion amongst us, developers. With all th...
Read more ...Debug.Assert in ASP.NET 2.0
January 14, 2006Finally, finally, finally, … Debug.Assert now works with ASP.NET 2.0. You have to love those little improvements they did for .NET 2.0. When using version 1.1 of the .NET framew...
Read more ...Rebase all your library assemblies
November 5, 2005Back in the good old Win32 days it was considered a best practice to rebase all your DLLs. Every executable and DLL has a preferred base address. This base address is the memory...
Read more ...pdb-only debug information option
September 3, 2005In Visual Studio 2005, you now have the ability to use the pdb-only debug information option. This underestimated debug option is available for the command- line C# compiler, bu...
Read more ...IXmlSerializable interface fully available in .NET 2.0
August 31, 2005The .NET 1.1 framework internally uses the IXmlSerializable interface for custom XML serialisation of certain classes. In fact the only class that I can come up with is the Data...
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